Hi, I can catch crawfish no problem but I haven't had the best luck fishing with them. Wondering what everyone does to put them on a hook and catch a toothy critter with them?
Thanks-wildone

WildOne; although I have not used live crawfish for bait in the BW, I have used them extensively at Bull Shoals Lake where they are preferred food for LM, SM and Spotted Bass, as well as Walleye. The rig is simple, a #2 Light wire bronze hook and a single split shot about 8 to 12 inches above the hook. Bend the crawfish's tail down and run the hook under and back out of a shell band at about the middle of the tail. The trick is to either vertically fish the bait a few inches off the bottom, or if casting keep it moving along the bottom back to you. If left still on the bottom for even a few seconds, the crawfish will crawl under something and you'll be snagged. The light wire hook comes in handy when this happens. Also, if you get a hit, be patient, open your reel and let the fish run with the bait for 10-15 seconds. The reason being the fish will pick up the bait and will start swimming while it turns the crawfish to swallow it tail first. A quick hookset will result in many misses.

Northwoods lobster!!! Why feed 'em to the fish?

Many years ago when my boys were younger, we'd catch crawfish and use Thill slipbobbers with a small splitshot about 2 feet above a #6 or #4 red treble hook...deadly rig for smallies around shoreline rock piles/cliffs with deep water ledges nearby...

Thanks guys we'll see if we can hook some fish up with crawdads....only 2 weeks till we depart for malberg!